What a sunny day after the FIRST snow in this winter. Let me show you 3 pictures in the first row, and 3 videos in the second row. We need to enjoy both R&D and life…
| Green Timers Lake 1 | Green Timers Lake 2 | Green Timers Park |
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| A Pair of Swans | A Group of Ducks | A Little Stream In The Snow |
After a brief break, I started investigating Khadas VIM3 again.
1. About Khadas VIM3
Khadas VIM3 is a super computer based on Amlogic A311D. Before we start, let’s carry out several simple comparisons.
1.1 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B vs. Khadas VIM3 vs. Jetson Nano Developer Kit
Please refer to hackerboards comparisons.
1.2 Amlogic A311D & S922X-B vs. Rockchip RK3399 (Pro) vs. Amlogic S912
Please refer to:
2. Ubuntu XFCE for Khadas VIM3
Let’s follow Flashing eMMC Operating System Using USB-C Cable in VIM3 Beginners Guide, and further follow Upgrade On Ubuntu. Let’s FIRST check out utils and have the required flash tool for Khadas installed.
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Then, we need to enter Upgrade Mode (Maskrom Mode). I’m using TST Mode recommened by the official website. Now, we should be able to find the Khadas as a USB device.
1 | ➜ utils git:(master) lsusb | grep Amlogic |
Now, let’s flash EMMC directly. VIM3_Ubuntu-xfce-bionic_Linux-4.9_arm64_EMMC_V20191231 can be found https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/VIM3/Ubuntu/EMMC/.
1 | ➜ VIM3_Ubuntu burn-tool -b VIM3 -i ./VIM3_Ubuntu-xfce-bionic_Linux-4.9_arm64_EMMC_V20191231.img |
Let’s try out Ubuntu XFCE on Khadas VIM3.
2.0 Krescue
1 | ➜ Krescue sudo dd bs=4M if=VIM3.krescue-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e-1586263654-67108864-d552d750ea2e3f80fdf53c5cb2c5eee3.sd.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync |
2.1 Ubuntu XFCE Installation
As of today, I just downloaded VIM3_Ubuntu-xfce-bionic_Linux-5.5-rc2_arm64_SD-USB_V0.8.2-20200103.7z, and flash it onto a TF card as:
1 | ➜ khadas sudo dd bs=4M if=VIM3_Ubuntu-xfce-bionic_Linux-5.5-rc2_arm64_SD-USB_V0.8.2-20200103.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync |
2.2 SSH Into Khadas VIM3
1 | ➜ ~ ssh khadas@192.168.1.95 |
3. OpenVINO Installation
Let’s just follow this Intel official documentation Arm* 64 Single Board Computers and the Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2 (Intel® NCS 2).











